Yoshihiro Tajiri

Tajiri is one of those wrestlers who made you feel the danger the moment his music hit — a guy from Yokohama who went to Philadelphia's ECW and somehow became one of the most legitimately frightening presences in the room, and that's before he ever threw a kick. That buzzsaw leg kick of his wasn't theater; it looked like it actually hurt, because it probably did. His run with WWE in the early 2000s was genuinely fun — the tarantula stretch locked in the ropes, the green mist, the whole "quiet intensity" thing he had — but I always thought he was slightly misused once the gimmick novelty wore off for the bookers. The guy could work. He kept going long after most would have stopped, doing his own thing on the indie scene and in Japan, which honestly says more about a performer's love for the craft than any title reign ever could.

Yoshihiro Tajiri is a Japanese professional wrestler born on September 29, 1970, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Known by the ring name TAJIRI, he gained international recognition competing on the global professional wrestling circuit. He operates an official website at japanesebuzzsaw.com and maintains an active presence on X (formerly Twitter). Further biographical details including his agency affiliation and active period are not publicly disclosed.

Name (English)

Yoshihiro Tajiri

Name (Japanese)

TAJIRI

Born

September 29, 1970 (age 55)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Professional Wrestler

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.japanesebuzzsaw.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/TajiriBuzzsaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAJIRI

Tags

• From Kanagawa
• Professional Wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.